Literary Notes

The Easternuinber of the Jenneis-ililler Magazine is one of the most entertaining spring publications whieh cotne to the reviewer's table. It is replete in brigbt features of interest to vomen,and besides being handsomely illustrated, contains several new articles. In addition to the liitest American fashions, the English noveltks are described and illustrated by Marie Belloc. $2.50 a year. AddressJennessMillerCo.,3(3Fifth-ave, New York. Juggernaul: A yeiled Record, by Geo. Cary Eggleston &. Dolores Marbourg; cloth, decorated, $1.25. Ford, Howard & Hulbert, New York. His "suicide"? Can the story of a man's life begin with itsending? Yes, even so; the moral suïcide committed by the hero in the early spring of his work - while it was the Btarting-point of Siiccess, tbe " taking at the flood " of a tide which did "bear him on to fortune," and a career of dazzling splendor- was also the beginning of the end. It "made" him ; but itdestroyed him at the last. Cas8ell's Blue Library is the name given to a new series of novéis to be published by theCassellPublishingCompany. The Blue Library will be edited with the greatest care by an editor especially engaged for that purpose. None bui books of high litnrary merit and of permanent value will be admitted to its ranks. The first volume in the series will be "A Christian Woman," by Mme. Emella Pardo Bazan, who is called " the Georgfc Eliot of Spain." The Blue Library will not, however, confine itself to translations. lts editor has ah eady secured, for early publication, the first novel of a well-known American poet, which it is believed will attract the attention of all overs of good hterature. Richard Malcolm Johnson's delightful short stories which have appeared in The Century, Harper'g, and other magazines, are to be published together with a new Btory in D. Appleton & Co.'s Town and Country Library, under the title of "The Primes and their Neighbors." This volume will contain ten of the characteristic tales of middle Georgia, which furnished such charming illustrations of the author's mellow humor. The new story, entitled " The ] )urance of Mr. Dickerson Prime, is accompanied by " Míbb Sally Cash," "The Misadventures of Mr. Littleberry Roach," "Gibble Colt's Ducks," and other tales which magazine readers will be glad to have in permanent form. There will be a cloth edition of " The Primes and their Neighbors," in a binding uniform with that of " Widow Guthrie," with illustrations by Kemble, F rost and other artists.